A young Aussie boy has become the inadvertent face of swooping season after a video of him fleeing a territorial magpie went viral. 9News
More than 80 whales stranded along Tasmanian coastline moved out to sea after Australia's worst mass beachingMagpies are almost certain to react to anything that large and fast-moving as if it's a predator.
If you're not willing to walk your bike - or scooter - through the swooper's territory, then you're more likely to provoke an attack. And as an extra note of caution, the South Australian Department of the Environment warns that magpies can remember you as a threat for up to five years.Lawrence Orel from the National Parks and Wildlife Service told nine.com.au that in many cases, magpies who swooped had often been provoked in previous seasons.
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